#TuesdayTune - Tina Arena

Tina began her career as a seven year old, performing live every weekend on Australia’s longest running variety television show, Young Talent Time, one of my favourite shows when I was growing up! My sisters and I would would watch this every Sunday night and we would sing and dance along with the performers. Oh how I wanted to be just like Tina Arena!

By the time she departed the show in 1983, Tina was already a household name and her songs I Need Your Body and Strong As Steel (1989) cemented her blossoming status. Her 1998 albumIn Deep sealed her fate as an international star and she then based herself in LA. Some of her performance highlights at this time included performances with Chaka Kahn, Stevie Wonder and Donna Summer. However, it was her collaboration with Mark Anthony on the song Spend My Lifetime loving You from the Mask of Zorro soundtrack that gave her a new kind of European success. The duet tipped the scales in France where both song and the movie were huge hits.

Arena's sixth album titled Songs of Love & Loss was released in 2007 and was primarily made up of songs originally recorded by women in the 1960s and 70s such as Dusty Springfield and Diana Ross and the arrangements featured a full string orchestra. The album peaked at #3 on the ARIA Top Albums chart.

While Arena was promoting Songs of Love & Loss in Australia, her first French single in two years, Entends-tu le monde?, was made available to French radio. The film clip for the song was shot in and around Sydney during the promotional tour of Australia and went on heavy rotation on French music television channels upon its release. The song was the first single from her French album 7 vies which was released on 28 January 2008 and debuted at #12 on the official French charts, her highest debut ever in the country. The single "Entends-tu le monde?" was released on 11 February 2008 and debuted at #10 on the French charts, becoming her sixth top ten single there.

The title roughly translates into English as "Do you hear the world?"Source

I hope you enjoy listening to one of my favourite Australian singers.

I love listening to music and I especially love hearing music from all around the world. If you have ever shared a song on your site I would love to hear it too!

Thanks so much for visiting today. I love it when my blogging friends come and visit me in my little corner of the world Down Under!

I hope that you have a wonderful week and I look forward to seeing you soon!

Best wishes always,

Natasha In Oz

Music is the universal language of mankind. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,Outre-Mer

Great post Natasha! I have always like Tina Arena, she is on eof those consistent performers that never disappoints. She is a beauty too.Enjoyed the video.Have a good Sunday...or I should say evening where you are.MImi

I am glad you posted it Mya-thank you. About the youtube clip, that sort of thing normally always happens to me when I try to watch clips from American blogs...strange isn't it!? I have added another link now in case so thanks for letting me know.

I am only doing a contract for the term-I finish on Sep 17....and counting down!

Thanks for doing this Sunday Song Natasha... I always try to find one specially so i can joij in! Today I have lunked up a brooke Fraser song which is a favourite of mine, and which I woke up with going around in my head."Arithmetic."Because some things just don't add up.xx

Hello Natasha, I am so happy I made to your Sunday Song, even though it's almost Monday for you over there!I picked Enya to share here with you because I have loved her songs for so many years now! She brings me peace and inspiration when I am painting. Hope you like her! Take care!

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